It seems Devin Butterfield wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just recently compiled a kernel with the new ATA driver and have
> discovered a problem: if I run sysinstall, right when it says "probing
> devices, please wait (this can be a while)" error messages saying...
[snip]
> and after printing these messages a number of times, sysinstall will
> finally come up. If I quit sysinstall and then run it again, probing
> goes well and there are no timeouts. The interesting thing is that I can
> reproduce this problem by rebooting and running sysinstall. So, this
> only happens when running sysinstall for the first time after a boot.
> :-/
>
> I've read through all the previous messages regarding these timeout
> problems and have even increased the timeout in ata-disk.c to 10 secs
> but no luck.
Hmm, I'd put my disks on different channels, but thats just for
performance sake. I'm currently trying every wierd setup I can
imagine with the HW I have for testing, but I havn't been able
to get any of my test setups to exhibit this behavior...
But I'm working on it...
-Soren
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